Speeches

Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his secon...

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history&...

At his seventieth birthday party, Mark Twain delivered this delightful retrospective of h...

When prompted to give a speech at his sixty-seventh birthday party, Mark Twain was at no ...

This Mark Twain speech is not the origin of his infamous quote. Instead, Twain delivered ...

It may seem odd that Mark Twain delivered a 4th of July speech in London in 1907. Aside f...

As humans, we often wonder about our heroes’ (and, perhaps, our enemies’) opi...

Mark Twain delivered this humorous speech on taxation and morality at the Tuskegee Instit...

A master of wit and wry humor on the page, Mark Twain also gained acclaim as a speaker th...

In this speech, Mark Twain muses on the capricious nature of man’s memory, particul...

Mark Twain gave this speech at an event honoring Andrew Carnegie, who helped found the Si...

Mark Twain delivered this speech at the dedication of new buildings at the College of the...

Mark Twain delivered this speech after following a toast made to “the ladies.&rdquo...

Mark Twain was commissioned to deliver this speech before the virgin voyage of the St. Pa...

Throughout his life, Gabriel García Márquez spoke publicly with the same pa...

With this biting speech, Mark Twain dissects the damaging role newspapers can play in soc...